Cushion for hernia-trusses.



PATENTED JULY 17, 1906. W. WAGNER. N FOR HERNIA TRUSSES.

IOATION FILED NOV. 10, 1904.

GUSHIO APIL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CUSHION FOR HERNlA-TRUSSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented July 17, 1906.

Application filed November 10, 1904. Serial No. 282,227.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM WAGNER, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Kreuznach, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cushions for .Hernia-Trusses, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to cushions for hernia-trusses, and has for its object a cushion made of such a material which permits to mold the cushion according to the anatomic condition of the wearer of the herniatrus s.

The object of the invention is to cause the truss-cushion to stick closely to the aperture of the hernia and the surrounding of it and to retain thus certainly the hernia. Such a material is hard paraffin. Hard paraflin is a compound -which is solid at the temperature of the human body, which at a higher temperature is soft and moldable, and which at a temperature above 70 Celsius becomes liquid.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows a transversal section of a hernia-cushion according. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show similar sections of difierent forms which may be given by modeling to the cushion. Fig. 5 shows a diagrammatic view of the lower part of the trunk with a hernia-cushion adapted thereto.

In the drawngs, (1 indicates the metal plate of the cushion. b is a rubber bag containing the parafiin 0. cl is the coating-leather. When this cushion is heated to to Celsius, the paraffin becomes so soft that one can easily give to the cushion by kneading and modeling any desired formfor instance, a flat form, as shown in Fig. 2, or a wedgeshaped form, Figs. 3 and 4. When the temperature is still further raised, the final form of the cushion may be obtained by adapting the truss after the liquefaction of the hard paraffin to the body, where the cushion, while gradually cooling down to the temperature of the body, molds itself in such a manner that the surface of the hardened cushion forms a true reproduction of the surface of the hernia and its surrounding parts. (See Fig. 5.) The paraffin may also be replaced by other substances Which are plastic by their nature, such as molding loam or by substances which may be rendered moldable by physical operations, as heating or by addition of chemical means.

The improved cushion may be used for all kinds of hernias, such as hernias upon the thighs, bubonoceles, umbilical ruptures, hernia on the womb, &c., and in connection with trusses'with or Without springs.

Having now fully described my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cushion for hernia-trusses the combination of a rigid plate and a suitable flexible pocket filled with. a moldable material which is rigid at the temperature of the human body but plastic at a medium higher temperature substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a cushion for hernia-trusses the combination of a metal plate and a rubber pocket coated upon the outside with leather and filled with hard paraffin substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

WILHELM WAGNER.

Witnesses LUIsE HAURAND. WALTER HOUSING. 

